Fleeson News

The following article was authored by Fleeson Gooing attorney Bill Tretbar at the request of the Southwest Kansas Royalty Owners Association (SWKROA), and was read at its recent annual meeting. The article will also appear in the SWKROA newsletter and is reprinted here by permission.
PASSING OF A TORCH AND THE END OF A… Read Article

Fleeson Gooing attorney Sylvia Penner was recently featured in a Wichita Business Journal article regarding networking and relationship building among women in the Wichita Business community.
The article focused on a “Mentoring Monday” event attended by approximately 240 women including Sylvia and Fleeson Gooing attorney A… Read Article

Fleeson Gooing attorney Roarke R. Gordon was honored to be chosen to serve as a speaker at a recent open house hosted the J.L. Weigand Legal Education Trust.
The Weigand Trust is one of the nation’s largest legal scholarships. Its purpose is to actively promote excellence in legal education and to encourage the most scholast… Read Article

Fleeson, Gooing is pleased to announce that Daniel E. Lawrence has become a member of the firm. Dan is a 2008 graduate of the Washburn University School of Law School where he graduated at the top of his class and served as an editor for the Washburn Law Journal. Dan joined the firm immediately after graduation and works primar… Read Article

Fleeson Gooing attorney Ali Marchant has been selected to be a 2014 Writer-in-Residence for the Ms. JD legal blog. Ms. JD (www.ms-jd.com) is an online legal community that seeks to support and improve the experiences of women law students and attorneys. As a Writer-in-Residence, Ali will be writing a monthly column about the … Read Article

Fleeson Going attorney Brooks Severson has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Kansas Association of Defense Counsel (KADC). The KADC is a statewide non-profit organization of over 230 Kansas lawyers who devote a substantial part of their practice to the defense of litigated cases. The goal of KADC is to enhance the k… Read Article

Fleeson Gooing attorney Adam Burrus recently assisted the United Way of the Plains in ensuring that 2014 donations will be invested for maximum community impact, by serving on the United Way’s 2013 Citizen Review Panel.
Citizen Review Panel volunteers are assigned to one of ten panels that review programs within the areas of… Read Article

Three Fleeson Gooing attorneys were among those honored by the Wichita Business Journal as Wichita’s “Lawyer of the Year” in their practice areas at a luncheon held at the Wichita Marriott on November 5, 2013. The Business Journal partnered with Best Lawyers to determine the honorees. Best Lawyers uses a peer-review proce… Read Article

Fleeson Gooing has been named a Tier 1 law firm in 17 practice areas for the Wichita metropolitan area by U.S. News and Best Lawyers.
The U.S.News – Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms” rankings are based on a rigorous evaluation process that includes the collection of client and lawyer evaluations, peer review from leading att… Read Article

Fleeson Gooing is please to welcome Michael Cannady back to the firm as Special Counsel. Mike previously practiced at Fleeson Gooing from 2004-2007 before joining Intrust Bank as a Vice President, and then practicing with another Wichita firm for several years. He is a graduate of Wichita State University and Washburn Univers… Read Article

Fleeson Gooing’s Lyndon Vix recently represented the firm at the fall meeting of Legal Netlink Alliance (LNA) in Minneapolis, Minnesota. LNA is a global alliance of carefully selected, midsized, general practice law firms. Firms are selected for membership because they represent a high level of quality and integrity. The n… Read Article

Best Lawyers has named three Fleeson, Gooing attorneys as Wichita’s Lawyer of the Year in their respective areas of practice. The attorneys are:
Greg Stucky - Oil and Gas Law
Bill Thompson - Corporate Law
Bill Townsley - Insurance Law
Best Lawyers compiles its lists of outstanding attorneys by conducting exhaustive peer-r… Read Article

Seventeen members of Fleeson, Gooing, Coulson & Kitch, L.L.C. have been included in the 2014 edition of The Best Lawyers in America in 28 different practice areas. Best Lawyers lists lawyers in 128 practice areas based on an exhaustive and rigorous peer-review survey that has been developed and refined over 25 years.
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Fleeson, Gooing is pleased to announce that Sylvia B. Penner has become a member of the firm. Sylvia is a 2004 graduate of the University of Kansas Law School. She worked as a prosecutor in the office of the Sedgwick County District Attorney for four years before joining the firm as an associate attorney in 2008. S… Read Article

U.S. News Media Group and Best Lawyers have announced that Fleeson Gooing has been designated as a 2013 "Best Law Firm" in the Wichita metropolitan area. The firm was ranked as a "Tier 1" firm in the following practice areas:
Commercial Litigation
Corporate Law
Criminal Defense: White-Collar - Governmental Investigations
Cr… Read Article

Fleeson Gooing is pleased to welcome Ryan Meyer as an associate attorney in the firm.
Ryan grew up in Augusta, Kansas, and attended Wichita State University before graduating
magna cum laude from Washburn University School of Law in 2010. For the past two years
he has served as a law clerk to the Hon. J. Tho… Read Article

Seventeen members of Fleeson, Gooing, Coulson & Kitch, L.L.C. have been included in the 2013 edition of The Best Lawyers in America in 28 different practice areas. Best Lawyers lists lawyers in 128 practice areas based on an exhaustive and rigorous peer-review survey that has been developed and refined over 25 years.
Firm … Read Article

The decades-long relationship between Fleeson
Gooing and Wichita State University (WSU) was
extended recently with Kansas Governor Sam
Brownback's appointment of Fleeson attorney
Eric Engstrom to the University’s Board of
Trustees. The nine-member Board supports WSU
by managing its endowmen… Read Article